After gazing spellbound, I began instinctively to scrutinize every notch and gorge and weathered buttress of the mountain, with reference to making the ascent.
Socrates goes further and defines rhetoric as a techne psychagogia, an art of leading or directing the soul, a kind of bewitchment that holds the listener's soul spellbound (261a).
But since Mr. Rochester’s visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals, —a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.
But I wanted to get ahead, and when I saw a computer for the first time, in my high school, I was spellbound, and I knew I just had to get my hands on whatever it was.